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Opera Releases Early Access Version of Its New Opera One Browser
Opera has released the first early access version of its new completely redesigned browser, Opera One. Opera One Taking a page out of Microsoft’s book on naming products is Opera One, a new completely redesigned browser designed to feature a cleaner look as well as plenty of open space for…
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Microsoft Says the Latest Edge Preview Build is Massively Faster
Around a month ago, Microsoft finally launched its latest version of their Edge internet browser which transitioned itself to a Chromium-based design. While there is, of course, a lot of apathy for the browser, we must admit that (so far) it seems really good. So good, in fact, that it…
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Microsoft Starts Rolling Out it’s Chromium-based Edge Browser
I think it’s pretty fair to say that while Microsoft’s Edge browser isn’t bad, it lacks a lot of the key features seen within its biggest competitors. Google Chrome being undoubtedly the largest! As such, since 2018, Microsoft has been working on a brand new version of it that would…
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Google Chrome 57 Limits Background Tabs to 1% CPU Usage
With the growth in memory and processing power, it’s now common to have multiple browser tabs open. Despite our ever more powerful system, the growth in tabbed browsing can sometimes lead to dramatic performance issues and slowdowns. Last year, Google announced that Chrome would be introducing a feature to limit…
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Next Version of Chrome Browser Contains Always-On DRM
The next stable version of Google’s Chrome internet browser – Chrome 57 – will remove the option to disable Widevine DRM, making the plugin mandatory and always-on. Widevine is Chrome’s version of EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, which is a web video DRM system developed by the World Wide Web…
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First Final Version of Vivaldi Web Browser Released
The Vivaldi Web Browser is considered by many to be the true successor to the popular Opera browser of yesteryear, before, in many people’s eyes, it lost its way. After months in development, ex-Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner has finally released the first full version of Vivaldi to the general public,…
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ASUSTOR Enhances Core Functions With New ADM 2.6 Beta
It has been about three years since ASUSTOR introduced the ADM operating system, now they’re ready with the public beta on the newest version, ADM 2.6. The new ADM version enhances a lot of core functions in the operating system and it is one well worth checking out for ASUSTOR…
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Vivaldi Browser is the True Successor to Opera
Many internet users, myself included, were disappointed by the death of the Opera browser. It was my primary browser for nearly a decade, as it was for many other smart internet users, but it only ever held around 5% of the browser market share. While, admittedly, I found the latter…
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Firefox Set to Become More Like Chrome
Mozilla is set to implement a number of changes to its Firefox internet browser that will make it more like Google Chrome. Though the revisions will make Firefox more secure and stable, as well as making Chrome apps, extensions, and add-ons available for the browser, it will strip away many…
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Google’s Covert Snooping Tool Installed Without User Consent
Google’s reputation with privacy advocates is pretty abysmal and the latest revelation that audio footage has been monitored on PCs without permission will do little to improve matters. Open source developers noticed a peculiar line of code via the Chromium browser which analyzes background noise. In theory, this technology is…
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Stored Passwords Now Secured In Google Chrome
Google takes security a step forward and finally adds a security feature in order to access the stored password inside the Google Chrome browser. Up until now, the user stored passwords could be viewed by everybody whu had access to the computer at hand. That wouldn’t be very nice if…
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New Opera 15 Available And It Is Based on Chromium
Opera has been coming under increasing pressure in recent times and despite having around 300 million users it is easily dwarfed by bigger browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Yet the traditional saying goes “if you can’t beat them, join them”. Opera are doing exactly that and with Opera…
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